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RecordId	DataSource	VesselName	VesselType	CauseofAccident	AreaofAccident	DayofAccident	MonthofAccident	YearofAccident	LivesLost	PropertyDamage	Recovered	Lake_Region	ID	Researcher	CasualtyCargo	Loss	WreckFound	PortofDeparture	HeadedFor	HomePort	Owner	YearBuilt	PlaceBuilt	BuiltBy	GrossTonnage	NetTonnage	HorsePower	Length	Beam	Draft	HIST_IMAGY	ReferenceNumber	AdditionalReferences	OtherSources	Remarks
1	16		Coast Guard Cutter	Sunk	Gravelly Shoal, at			1967				Saginaw
2	14	# 115	Barge, whaleback	Stranded and sunk (storm; broke from Colgate Hoyt)	Pic Island, 7 miles off, near Neys Prov. Park, Ontario	13	12	1899			No														1169			256
3	9	# 137	Barge, whaleback	Scrapped	Hamilton, Ontario			1965														1896	Superior, Wisconsin	American Steel Barge Co.	2817			362	45	26
4	6	#101	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1888	Duluth, Minnesota	Captain Alexander McDougall	1500			187	25	18
5	6	#102	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1889	Duluth, Minnesota	Captain Alexander McDougall
6	6	#103	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1889	Duluth, Minnesota	Captain Alexander McDougall
7	6	#104	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1890	Duluth, Minnesota	Captain Alexander McDougall
8	6	#105	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1890	Duluth, Minnesota	Captain Alexander McDougall
9	6	#107 (later Bombay)	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1890	Duluth, Minnesota	Captain Alexander McDougall
10	6	#109	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1890	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall
11	6	#110 (later Badger)	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1891	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall
12	6	#111 (later Jennie)	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1891	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall
13	6	#115	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1891	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall
14	6	#116 (later Brittania)	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1891	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall
15	6	#117	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1891	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall
16	6	#118	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1891	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall							NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
17	6	#126	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1892	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall							NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
18	6	#127 (later Ivie)	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1892	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall							NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
19	6	#129	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1893	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall							NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
20	6	#130	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1893	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall							NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
21	6	#131	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1893	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall							NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
22	6	#132	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1893	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall							NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
23	6	#134	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1893	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall							NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
24	6	#137	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1896	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall							NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
25	6	#139	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1896	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall							NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
26	6	#140	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1897	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall							NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
27	6	#201 (later Cassie)	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1897	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall							NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
28	6	#202 (later Fannie)	Barge, whaleback	Unspecified																		1897	Superior, Wisconsin	Captain Alexander McDougall							NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
29	19	(No name)	Canoe, Montreal	Capsized	Whitefish Bay, lower	26	8	1816																							NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
30	19	(No Name)	Scow	Sunk (went adrift)	Vermilion Point	26	10	1902																							NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
31	12	101	Barge, steel whaleback	Sold to out-of-lakes interest	Atlantic Ocean (sunk in storm off Maine, Dec. 8, 1908)			1908			No											1888	Superior, Wisconsin	American Steel Barge Company				198	25	18	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
32	12	109	Barge, steel whaleback	Sold to out-of-lakes interest	Atlantic Coast (sunk off Long Island, N.Y., Jan. 23, 1914)			1905			No											1891	Superior, Wisconsin	American Steel Barge Company				280	36	22	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
33	12	110	Barge, steel whaleback	Sold to out-of-lakes interest	Atlantic Ocean (scrapped in 1932)			1905			No											1891	Superior, Wisconsin	American Steel Barge Company				280	36	22	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
34	12	111	Barge, steel whaleback	Sold to out-of-lakes interest	East Coast (sunk in collision in Virginia, May 1916)			1904			No											1891	Superior, Wisconsin	American Steel Barge Company				280	36	22	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
35	24	115	Barge, steel whaleback	Stranded (smashed beyond recovery)	Pic Island, on	18	12	1899			No																				NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
36	12	116	Barge, steel whaleback	Sold to out-of-lakes interest	Atlantic Ocean (scrapped at Port Arthur, Texas, 1946)			1946			No											1891	Superior, Wisconsin	American Steel Barge Company				264	36	22	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
37	11	117	Barge, steel whaleback	Sold to out-of-lakes interest	Wales, Great Britain (abandoned there 1932)			1911			No											1891	Superior, Wisconsin	American Steel Barge Company				298	36	22	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
38	11	118	Barge, steel whaleback	Sold to out-of-lakes interest (between 1910 and 1919)	East Coast (scrapped at Port Athur, Texas, 1946)						No											1891	Superior, Wisconsin	American Steel Barge Company				298	36	22	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
39	12	126	Barge, steel whaleback	Stranded (total loss)	Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts	31	12	1905			No											1892	Superior, Wisconsin	American Steel Barge Company				264	36	22	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
40	24	127	Barge, whaleback	Stranded (broke from stmr Harvard in high seas)	Marquette, north of	15	11	1901			Yes																				NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
41	12	127	Barge, steel whaleback	Sold to out-of-lakes interest	Atlantic Ocean (scrapped at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1936)			1904			No											1892	Superior, Wisconsin	American Steel Barge Company				279	36	22	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
42	24	129	Barge, whaleback	Collided and sunk (by stmr Maunaloa while in tow)	Vermilion Point, 30 miles NW of		9	1902			No																				NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
43	7	129	Barge	Collided	Lake Superior, in	13	10	1902	Unspecified		Unspecified																				NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
44	12	129	Barge, steel whaleback	Collided and sunk (hit by stmr Maunaloa while in tow of it)	Lake Superior, on	13	10	1902			No											1893	Superior, Wisconsin	American Steel Barge Company				298	36	22	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
45	24	130	Barge, whaleback	Stranded (in tow of stmr Crescent City)	Au Sable Reef	9	4	1902			Yes																				NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
46	11	130	Barge, steel whaleback	Sold to out-of-lakes interest	East Coast (scrapped at Port Arthur, Texas, 1924)			1911			No											1893	Superior, Wisconsin	American Steel Barge Company				306	36	22	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
47	24	131	Barge, whaleback	Stranded (poor visibility; in tow of stmr German)	Duluth, out of	29	7	1901			Yes																				NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
48	11	131	Barge, steel whaleback	Sold to out-of-lakes interest	East Coast (scrapped at Port Arthur, Texas, 1946)			1911			No											1893	Superior, Wisconsin	American Steel Barge Company				306	36	22
49	11	132	Barge, steel whaleback	Sold to out-of-lakes interest	East Coast (sunk in storm off Freeport, Texas, 1927)			1911			No											1893	Superior, Wisconsin	American Steel Barge Company				306	36	22
50	24	133	Barge, whaleback	Collided (with stmr James B. Colgate while in tow)	Grand Island, at	21	9	1907			Yes
51	11	133	Barge, steel whaleback	Sold to out-of-lakes interest	East Coast (sunk off Fire Island, New York, Nov. 12, 1911)			1911			No											1893	Superior, Wisconsin	American Steel Barge Company				306	36	22
52	24	134	Barge, steel whaleback	Collided (with stmr Lafayette while in tow)	Lake Superior		4	1905			Yes
53	24	134	Barge, whaleback	Collided (with stmr Kensington)	Duluth Harbour, in	23	10	1906			Yes
54	11	134	Barge, steel whaleback	Sold to out-of-lakes interest	East Coast (stranded near Hampton Roads, Vir., Dec. 1912)			1911			No											1893	Superior, Wisconsin	American Steel Barge Company				306	36	22
55	24	137	Barge, whaleback	(Capt lost overboard; in tow of stmr Matoa)	Houghton, at	20	9	1913			Yes
56	24	137	Barge, whaleback	Collided (hit by stmr Colonel James M.Schoonmaker)	Duluth Harbour, in		7	1917			Yes
57	2	76	Schooner	Stranded (wrecked)	Lake Michigan			1848			No
58	7	82	Lightship	Foundered	Lake Erie, in	11	11	1913	All hands		Unspecified
59	25	A	BARGE					1881		0			3	JOHN LIGOTINO 1994		TOTAL				DETROIT, MICHIGAN												1			BECAME A MERCHANT VESSEL IN 1882. NOT LISTED AS A MERCHANT VESSEL IN 1886.
60	25	A	BARGE	FOUNDERED	NEAR RACINE WIS.	15	5	1900		0		LAKE MICHIGAN	4	JOHN LIGOTINO 1994	STONE	TOTAL		SOUTH CHICAGO	RACINE WIS.						410	403						1		U.S. LIFE SAVING SERVICE 1900	NOT LISTED AS A MERCHANT VESSEL IN 1903. VALUE OF VESSEL $4 500; VALUE OF CARGO $785.
61	25	A	BARGE	FOUNDERED	OFF MUSKEGON HARBOUR		10	1917		0	YES	LAKE MICHIGAN	2	JOHN LIGOTINO 1994		TOTAL	YES	GRAND HAVEN	MANISTEE		JOHN GINZEL							48.5	20.7	4.5		1			A PILE DRIVER WAS LOST OFF MUSKEGON HARBOUR, LAKE MICHIGAN AFTER BEING TOWED FROM GRAND HAVEN TO MANISTEE. THE WRECKAGE IS ABOUT 1 3/4 MILES SOUTH BY WEST FROM MUSKEGON PIERHEAD LIGHT, WITH TIMBER AND ANGLE IRONS SHOWING ABOVE THE WATER 4 FEET.
62	21	A Seaman	Tug	Foundered (suddenly)	Michipicoten Island, near	5	9	1906			No	Superior										1873			52			69
63	11	A., Cora	Schooner, wooden	Sold to out-of-lakes interest	Atlantic Coast (sunk in storm off North Carolina, 1916)	6	3	1916			No											1889	Manitowoc, Wisconsin	Burger & Burger Shipyard				158	32	11
64	23	A.B.C.F.M.	Schooner (?)	Still operating as of 1899																		1854	Milwaukee, Wisconsin		143			110	24	4
65	12	A.B.C.F.M.	Schooner, wooden	Abandoned (due to age and condition)	Great Lakes, on the			1902			No											1854	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	Joseph Eunice Shipyard				110	24	8
66	10	A.D.	Schooner barge, wooden	Sold to out-of-lakes interest (Saguenay Lumber Company)	Montreal, near, Quebec			1923			No											1898	St. Thomas de Pierreville, Quebec	Simon Groverneurs				150	30	12
67	25	A.H.J.	SCREW	FOUNDERED	OFF GROSS VILLAGE, MICHIGAN	2	10	1921		0		LAKE MICHIGAN	712	JOHN LIGOTINO 1994		TOTAL				GRAND HAVEN, MICHIGAN		1912	ELK RAPIDS, MICHIGAN		11	9		38	9.7	4		1			LISTED AS A MERCHANT VESSEL OF THE U.S. IN 1922, BUT NOT IN 1924.
68	25	A.M.P.	SCREW	BURNED	DENNIS ISLAND	14	8	1912		0		DETROIT RIVER	726	JOHN LIGOTINO 1994		TOTAL				DETROIT, MICHIGAN		1911	DETROIT, MICHIGAN		33	16	36	56.3	13.3	6.5		1			LISTED AS A MERCHANT VESSEL OF THE U.S. IN 1913, BUT NOT LISTED IN 1915.
69	23	Aaron	Unspecified	Still operating as of 1899																		1881	Montreal, Quebec		144			108	22
70	25	ABBELL	SCHOONER	WRECKED	POINT WAUGOSHANCE			1861		0		LAKE MICHIGAN	1464	JOHN LIGOTINO 1994		TOTAL																1		HISTORY OF THE GREAT LAKES 1861
71	23	Abbell, C.L.	Schooner	Unspecified (still operating as of 1899 (?))	(Chartered in 1856 to drive Mormons out of Beaver Island)																				33
72	16	Abbell, C.L.	Schooner	Stranded (wrecked)	Pt. Waugoschance, at			1861				Mackinac Straits
73	2	Abbell, C.L.	Schooner	Stranded (wrecked)	Point Wawgochance (Waugoschance ?)			1861			No
74	21	Abbell, C.L.	Schooner	Sunk (struck bottom and wrecked)	Waugoschance Point, Michigan			1861			No	Michigan
75	23	Abbey (or Abbie)	Schooner (?)	Still operating as of 1899																		1886	Ludington		84			88	22	6
76	23	Abbey, J.P.	Scow	Still operating as of 1899																		1863	Port Robinson					120
77	23	Abbey, Olivia	Scow	Still operating as of 1899																		1884	Port Robinson		90
78	20	Abbie	Schooner	Foundered (storm)	Portage Lake (recovered(?))	8	11	1905																	87 gt			88
79	24	Abbie	Schooner	Foundered	Portage Lake, at	8	11	1905			No
80	21	Abbie	Schooner	Sunk	Manistee, off, Michigan	8	11	1905			No	Michigan										1886	Ludington, Michigan		87			88